Abstract
For many of our students, the folk tales of The Arabian Nights are a fantastic world of encounter, where images of exotic women in harems and genies in lamps are part of their horizon of expectations before they begin reading—and they are rarely disappointed! While The Arabian Nights is a cultural artifact originating from India, North Africa, and the Middle East, the stories have been transformed and retold in the West since even before the early eighteenth century, when French Orientalist Antoine Galland undertook a compilation and translation of tales he titled Les mille et une nuits.
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